19 hours Ago By Whitney Vasquez
The sixth and finale season of “The Handmaid’s Tale” is almost here — but two major episodes are still being put together, The Post can reveal. The cast gathered for one final time at the Season 6 premiere at the TCL Chinese Theatre on Wednesday, April 2, in Hollywood, California, on Wednesday, April 2, and Elisabeth Moss wasn’t the only person who couldn’t wait to dish about what’s in store for the Hulu series. Warren Littlefield, who’s been the executive producer of the Emmy-winning show since Season One in 2017, exclusively told The Post that the final chapter of “The Handmaid’s Tale” is “pretty damn powerful” — but it’s not yet completed.
When asked where episodes nine and ten were in the Season 6 screeners that were given out to the press, Littlefield shared, “We’re finishing the episodes. I mean, there’s a reason you can’t see them yet. We haven’t turned the final versions out.
” That doesn’t mean they don’t know the ending, which was directed by Moss . “Bring you’re Kleenex,” he warned, “but I think it’s really satisfying.” Littlefield — who oversaw classics like “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” “Friends,” “ER,” “Will & Grace,” “West Wing,” and — went on to elaborate about the ending of “The Handmaid’s Tale.
” “Do we walk away with a world of Gilead gone? No, we don’t. But our characters are not without victory, not without a sense of accomplishment. And so I think we’ve rewarded the patience of our loyal fans and been very true to our show,” he shared, adding they “can’t wait to get it out there” and are “thrilled to present” the final product.
He also shared the one thing he will miss most when they close this final chapter of “The Handmaid’s Tale” — is the cast, including Moss (June), Yvonne Strahovski (Serena), Bradley Whitford (Commander Joseph Lawrence), Samira Wiley (Moira), O-T Fagbenle (Luke), and more. “I love this cast, and I suspect they will be a part of my life for a long time to come,” Littlefield told The Post. “It’s been a journey unlike any other I’ve had, and I’m fortunate to have had a lot of wonderful journeys in the world of making television.
But we are really proud of our work.” While the chapter is closing on “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Hulu announced a spinoff called “The Testaments” is coming, which Littlefield will be executive producing alongside several of his colleagues, including Moss. The story will follow Ann Dowd’s character, Aunt Lydia, and include June’s daughter Hannah (played by Jordana Blake), known as Agnes in the patriarchal territory of Gilead.
“It’s based on Margaret Atwood’s sequel, her book, ‘The Testaments,’ and it’s a very different point of view,” Littlefield said. “It’s young women coming of age in Gilead, four years after the killing of the harvest,” he explained. “It’s a different world, it is a different palette, it is a different population, so much is different, and yet.
.. we’ll pull the veil back and reveal that, yes, we’re still in Gilead.
” Littlefield stopped short of sharing if more familiar faces from “The Handmaid’s Tale” will make an appearance in the spinoff. “Aunt Lydia, Ann Dowd, is central to ‘The Testaments,’ and anything else would be a spoiler, so I’m not telling you,” he teased. Moss, who’s led “The Handmaid’s Tale” cast as June for the past eight years, addressed the final season of the show and revealed her initial thoughts when reading the scripts for the final few episodes .
“Holy s–t. And tears, lots of tears on the last one,” she teased at the premiere. “The Handmaid’s Tale” Season 6 airs April 8 on Hulu with three-episodes.
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